The Rt. Hon. Harold Macmillan in conversation with Charles Collingwood, John Grist, Nigel Lawson.

"I've always been very nervous of any public appearance."
"I always got the feeling I shouldn't be killed - I don't know why. I was absolutely sure of it."
"You see, politics is like drink, when once you take to it you can't keep away from it."
"I'm afraid I had to spend my years as a Minister concealing my past as an independent member."
"I'm only upset when foolish people complain about America taking the burden which we can no longer fully carry."

Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister, 1957-1963 talks about his life from his earliest years in London at the end of the last century up till the outbreak of war in 1939.
Introduced by Ian Trethowan.
A sound recording: Friday, 8.0 p.m. (Home)
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